Ancient Greece Vocabulary Pretest

What is a peninsula?

• A mountain

• A body of land with water on three sides.

• A desert

• An ocean

What is a colony?

• A settlement in a new area

• A disease

• A part of the body

• A capital city

What is a polis?

• A civilization

• A breed of horse

• A city-state

• A king

What is an agora?

• A type of food

• An animal

• A language

• An open area for meeting in ancient Greece

What is a phalanx?

• A type of Greek food

• A Greek military formation

• A form of government

• A king

What is a tyrant?

• A person who seizes power and rules with total authority

• A person who votes

• A person who follows orders

• A person who runs for government office

What is an oligarchy?

• A form of government ruled by many people

• A form of government ruled by one person

• A form of government ruled by nobody

• A form of government ruled by a few people

What is democracy?

• A form of government ruled by one person

• A form of government ruled by all citizens

• A form of government ruled by nobody

• A form of government ruled by a few people

What is a helot?

• A Spartan slave

• A king

• A government official

• A type of Greek building

Who were Darius and Xerxes?

• Greek kings

• Chinese kings

• Egyptian kings

• Persian kings